Chapter 79 Section 1

Bavillie Villa, this place name is associated with first-class movie stars, big-name directors and famous artists in the minds of Americans.In fact, there are celebrities from all walks of life including the former US president among the residents of Bavillie Villa, and there are also nouveau riche who sharpen their heads and try to join the upper class. Bavillie Hills is located in the west of Los Angeles, adjacent to Hollywood.The foot of the mountain is dotted with major film manufacturers and entertainment companies.To the west of the villa is the scenic Stone Valley Nature Reserve, and to the south is the famous University of California, Los Angeles.

Elm Road, like most streets in Bavillie Hills, is built along the hill, not so straight, not so flat. On August 20, 1989, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, a young girl was standing at the door of her house at the lower end of Elm Road. She was waiting for her boyfriend.A car passed by the girl and stopped at No. 722 at the top of Elm Road.The figures of two men got out of the car, one opened the trunk lid, and the other walked straight towards the house.It was just an ordinary street scene under the night sky, and the girl turned her head and turned away uninterestedly.If she got a little closer to the car, or looked a little longer, she would find that the two men were holding long guns in their hands.

No. 722 Elm Road is a white Mediterranean-style mansion, which was worth more than 4 million US dollars at the time.There are 23 rooms in the house.The huge garden is surrounded by high iron railings. The trees in the garden are towering and the branches and leaves are luxuriant, covering the whole huge house in the shade of greenery. The front yard of 722 is also wider than that of the neighbors, so the house is set back relatively farther from the sidewalk.The entrance to the semi-circular driveway in front of the house is guarded by an iron gate. The owner of No. 722 is named Monadez, the male owner, Jose, is 44 years old, and the female owner, Katie, is 47 years old.The family also has two sons, Joseph Lyle, 21, and Eric, 18.It's Sunday, and the employers are off.The two young men couldn't stay at home, so they invited a few friends to watch a movie together.After dinner, the Monardezes stuffed a 007-James Bond videotape into the VCR in the living room, and lazily leaned on the sofa while eating creamy blueberries for dessert.

The gunmen had no trouble entering the courtyard.The iron gate to the front yard was open and the burglar alarm system had been switched off.The two pushed open the French door leading to the yard in the study, walked through the study, and came to the hallway connected to the living room.The living room was dark, with no lights on, only the flickering light of the TV screen.At the moment, José is reclining on the end of the brown leather sofa, drowsy.He faces the aisle, with his feet on the coffee table.Katie lay on the couch with her head on her husband's lap, wrapped in a blanket.She has fallen asleep.Two coffee cups and a dessert plate were scattered on the coffee table.

A gunman raised a 12mm Mossburg rifle and fired four rounds at Hosse.The first shot hit his left elbow, the next two hit his right arm, and a bullet flew over José's head and landed on the French doors behind the couch.The shooter or another shooter moved around behind Jose and fired another shot at his bowed head.The shot knocked off the back of Jose's head, and the flying flesh sprayed Katie all over.Finally, Hosse fell sideways on the sofa, feet on the ground, hands on his stomach. The first gunshot woke Mrs. Monadez, and she got up in a panic and was about to run away. Two consecutive bullets hit her right leg and right arm.Katie fell down on the carpet between the sofa and the coffee table, struggled to stand up again, wobbled twice, slipped and fell in a pool of her own blood.The murderer rushed forward and shot her indiscriminately. Katie was shot several times in her left leg, left chest and right arm, but she was still breathing and trying to crawl away from where she fell.

The bullet was emptied, and the gunmen hesitated for a moment, probably still afraid of leaving the police alive, and finally decided to go back to the car to get the bullet.This time they brought shotgun cartridges instead of the buckshot they had used the first time. The gunman returned to the living room, aimed at Mrs. Monadez's left cheek four times across the coffee table.Katie had nine gunshot wounds, her skull shattered by the four shotgun bullets.Jose was hit four times. The murderers did not forget to pick up the bullet casings on the ground before evacuating the scene. The above is the story of the José-Katie Monadez double-murder case pieced together by the investigators of the Pavillon Hills Police Station and the experts of the public prosecution based on the site investigation and autopsy results.

José Monadez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944 into an upper-middle-class family.Jose's father was a well-known Cuban football star who started his own accounting firm after retiring from football.When her mother was young, she was also a smash hit swimmer and was selected as one of Cuba's national outstanding athletes.Although the Monadez family was not very rich, José's parents had always been celebrities in Havana's high society due to the couple's prestige in the sports world.José also has two older sisters, Teri and Marta.As the only son and the youngest child in the family, Hosse was loved and cared for by his mother since he was a child.

In the late 1950s, the revolution led by Fidel Castro overthrew the Fugencio Batista dynasty, and Havana's propertied classes fled Cuba for refuge abroad. In 1960, 16-year-old José Monadez came to Heralton, Pennsylvania, USA with Carlos Barratt, the fiancé of her older sister Terry.In the second year, his parents went to the United States successively. With a language barrier and penniless money, Hose, who was spoiled since he was a child, can only work part-time while studying to supplement his family income.But his competitive nature made it difficult for him to be inferior to others, and Hosse vowed to make a name for himself in the United States.Due to economic reasons, Jose Monadez failed to enter the "Ivy League College" in the eastern United States as he wished - old famous universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. He made a wish to himself that in the future his children We must study in prestigious schools.Jose won a scholarship to Southern Illinois University just by swimming, but he didn't like it.Students in the same class remember that he was always depressed and rarely interacted with others. They also remembered that he studied very hard. In order to concentrate on his homework, Hosse even gave up swimming.Years later, the only memory of Southern Illinois University that remains in Jose's mind is that he met Katie Anderson there.